Eric sentimentalizes family, and badly wants one of his own.
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In gentle selections like "Tractor" and "Tailgate Town," Mr. Smith sentimentalizes sturdy agrarian values.
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We live in a culture that sort of sentimentalizes family, regardless of the reality.
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What makes Mr. Church a travesty rather than just an embarrassment is the way it sentimentalizes their relationship.
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Instead, marrying this music and libretto with these photographs sentimentalizes their depicted sexuality, so much as to neuter it.
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And even if the film's climax doesn't ultimately affirm that Cleo is "part of the family," it still feels like it overly sentimentalizes her position with them.
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And at the very end, the way "Since You've Gone to Heaven" sentimentalizes her father the better to bemoan the decay of the small town she's never too pious to make fun of.
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Instead, the story shifts and lumbers toward redemption that Earl doesn't earn and that sentimentalizes a movie that is never especially good and often teasingly offensive but also fitfully entertaining and willfully perverse.
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By disguising the brutal truths of the war, he sentimentalizes and even valorizes it — a war in which disregard for human life led to approximately 8.5 million military deaths around the world, and an estimated 21 million wounded.
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" He further added, "Hansal Mehta never sentimentalizes Simran's anti- social behaviour." Writing for The Wire Nehmat Kaur also praised lead performances and direction but criticized the 'stretched' screenplay. Regarding the setting of the film Filmfare wrote with a rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars "This comedy is well-written and executed. Sometimes, Simran is a little too American, but that's a guilty pleasure worth having.
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During the trial, the Atlanta musician and millworker Fiddlin' John Carson wrote and performed a murder ballad entitled "Little Mary Phagan". During the mill strikes of 1914, Carson sang "Little Mary Phagan" to crowds from the Fulton County courthouse steps. His daughter, Moonshine Kate, later recorded the song. An unrecorded Carson song, "Dear Old Oak in Georgia", sentimentalizes the tree from which Leo Frank was hanged.
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The film's greatest asset is the obvious > conviction of its actors, who never condescend to their roles. Mr. Depp may > look nothing like Buster Keaton, but there are times when he genuinely seems > to become the Great Stone Face, bringing Keaton's mannerisms sweetly and > magically to life. As Mr. Depp and the rest of the film makers surely must > have known, an impersonation like that is an all-or-nothing proposition. Ms. > Masterson, a remarkably incisive and determined actress, never > sentimentalizes Joon despite many ripe opportunities to do exactly that.
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